Charles-Louis Schulmeister

Charles-Louis Schulmeister (1770-) was a spy of the French Empire under Napoleon. He established spy networks in Vienna, Budapest, and other major Coalition cities during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography
Charles-Louis Schulmeister was born in Alsace-Lorraine, Kingdom of France to a German-speaking Alsatian family in 1770. Schulmeister was employed as a spy under the First French Empire of Emperor Napoleon I, and he made use of his talents of having friends in the government and having a secret policeman at his side. Schulmeister successfully set up spy networks in the Austrian Empire's capital of Vienna and its later capital of Budapest, which later fell into French hands and became the capital of a Hungarian puppet state under King Deak I of Hungary. Napoleon planned to have him later establish a spy ring in the Russian city of Kiev in the Ukraine in order to provide detailed information on the Russian Empire's military preparations as well.